Tour News, Reviews & Set Lists

This has newly mixed audio and additional footage from the Roy Firestone interview added. Plus, watching has been extended until November 15. If you haven't ordered it already, order it now!

Nevessa Productions is once again providing a webcast from one of the dates on the Todd/Healing tour. This is the only webcast from the tour. It will originate from the show at the Keswick Theater in Glenside, PA on September 14th at 7:30 PM (EDT). As well as the concert performance of the complete Todd and Healing albums it will include an excerpt of his interview with Roy Firestone and some coverage of the Toddstock movie premiere and party. The price is only $19.95 (lower than the AWATS and Johnson webcasts). The subscriber will be able to see the live show plus watch it repeatedly for the following 30 days.

A Kasim Sulton solo gig is set for Sat. Oct. 23rd, 2010 at 8:00 PM at the Gateway Creamery, Joplin, Mo. to benefit the Animal Adoption and Resource Center there. Tickets will be available from the shelter's website joplinhumane.org or by contacting organizer Mark Woodin at 417 624 1069. Tickets are limited to 250 and are $25 advance.

According to several sources, including the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame, Todd is the featured guest, joining the band Cream of the Crop, during an event called "Chef Jam 2010: Cleveland
Food Rocks." It's set for Sunday, June 13, 2010 at 7 PM at the Rock Hall. Tickets are $50 and are available through
TicketMaster.

Picture credit - Jean Lannen

Announcing The Todd Rundgren's Johnson Webcast April 11, 2010 8PM EDT

Todd brings a completely new show on the road this spring featuring many Robert Johnson classics and many other rarely performed Todd songs. This not-to-be-missed event will be broadcast live from The Ridgefield Playhouse in Ridgefield, Connecticut and available only to fans who subscribe. Todd's band will include Kasim Sulton on bass and vocals, Prairie Prince on drums and Jesse Gress on guitar.

Each $24.95 webcast ticket includes 6 hours of viewing for the live event and video on demand for up to one month. The webcast will be available in a 400k stream for those with slower machines or connections and an 800k stream for near HD quality. You can switch easily between the streams to see which works best for you. Our 24/7 customer support can assist you with any connection issues.

If you live in a timezone for which the live event is inconvenient or wish to view it again and again the video on demand is perfect for you and will be available a few hours after the live performance finishes.

Todd Rundgren to launch 'Wizard' USB concert stick

For immediate release, London, England -

Todd Rundgren, the legendary rock musician and record producer, who has worked with everyone from Patti Smith, Meatloaf and the New York Dolls, today announced that his February 2010 London and Amsterdam "A Wizard A True Star" concerts will be released on USB stick.

The European AWATS concerts will take place at the HMV London Hammersmith Apollo on Saturday 6th February, followed by the Paradiso, Amsterdam on Monday 8th February. Fans who attend the concerts will be able to buy the entire two hour concert on USB stick at the merchandise stand directly after the shows. The USB stick will include two hours of live performance audio, including "Todd Rundgren's Johnson"; a 45-minute set of Rundgren performing Robert Johnson songs, followed by a 75-minute set of the highly anticipated "A Wizard A True Star" album performed in it's entirety.

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Todd Rundgren's British Premiere of A Wizard, A True Star

For immediate release / London, England -

Todd Rundgren - rock'n'roll icon, guitarist, interactive progenitor, singer/songwriter and record producer, will perform his paradigm shifting 1973 album, A Wizard, a True Star in its entirety for the first time ever in Britain on Saturday 6th February 2010 at the London HMV Hammersmith Apollo. This marks Todd's only UK performance of the album which is hailed as an influential masterpiece by many of today's new bands, including Hot Chip.

Although Rundgren's breakthrough 1972 album, Something/Anything? is considered by many to be his masterpiece, the psychedelic impact and bordering-on-disturbing innovation of the follow-up, A Wizard, A True Star is arguably Rundgren's most experimental and influential album and is regarded as one of the most pioneering progressive rock albums of all time.

This will be the first time in Britain that he will perform the whole record live onstage, from start to finish. The first half of the concert will feature a selection of Rundgren's songs throughout his career, while the second half will consist of the entirety of A Wizard, a True Star. Originally released in 1973, much of the album is an extended medley after the fashion of The Beatles' late recordings. The effect of the songs merging one into another was immediate, infectious and dazzling; the lyrical content was often at once both tongue in cheek and hallucinogenic.

A full page colour interview with Todd Rundgren hit the UK newsstands Friday in the June 2005 edition of Classic Rock magazine. Todd mania continues to sweep the UK.

Please note - Todd's big interview in the Liverpool Echo newspaper was published today (Friday April 29th) and has just gone live on the icLiverpool website. The interview was conducted by Peter Grant, who recently interviewed Lou Reed for us for the same newspaper.
You can read the "new" Liverpool newspaper Todd interview
here -

Please note, there is a lot of media interest in Liverpool for Todd, as the latter cites the Beatles as a major influence on his music.

Fill 'er up with Ethel

Critically acclaimed classical string quartet, ETHEL, are special guests of
Joe Jackson and Todd Rundgren on a massive full-scale 2005 US and European
Tour. The European tour starts on May 30th at the Portsmouth Guildhall
(UK) and will also include concerts in Bristol, York, Gateshead, London,
Leicester, Edinburgh and Liverpool. In June Ethel the tour will continue
with shows in Holland, France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Spain.

Ethel is a 21st-century realisation of the classical string quartet model
featuring uptown and downtown performing stalwarts Ralph Farris, Dorothy
Lawson, Todd Reynolds, and Mary Rowell. Their credentials read like a who's
who of classical, contemporary, and popular music. From the Orpheus
Chamber Orchestra and the Steve Reich Ensemble to the Sheryl Crow Band and
the Roger Daltrey Band, Ethel brings together a vast spectrum of performing
and recording experiences. They have performed on Joe Jackson's "Night
and Day II" album, and Todd Rundgren wrote a piece of music for them in 2000.

Unencumbered by convention, genre or style, the tastes, talents and
experiences of these four musicians come together to create a flexible
entity that is committed to exploring new possibilities in string quartet
performance. Their debut album has been critically acclaimed by John
L.Walters of the Guardian newspaper.

"I wish there were more rock bands that played like Ethel," says
Walters. "What you get from Ethel is the sense of the performers
participating in the act of making a living, breathing music that brings
the format back into contemporary life and culture while remaining an
acoustic string quartet."

Joe Jackson and Todd Rundgren today announced details of their forthcoming UK and European Tour. The internationally renown-recording artists and singer/songwriters will undertake a joint solo tour where they will be backed by US string quartet, Ethel.

Todd, Joe and Ethel will also be performing concerts in Holland, France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Spain. The above listed press release web page/link will be refreshed daily with the latest tour developments.

2005

w/ Joe Jackson and Ethel

w/ Hall and Oates

2004

Classic Rock will be running a feature on the Promowest Pavilion show in Columbus, OH (April 14) and is soliciting
high-quality photos for publication in the piece.
If you have some good shots to consider, please contact me .
Do not send the photos themselves,
just let me know what you've got. The photos must be 300dpi resolution and at least 1000x1000 pixels in size.

The 2004 Liars tour 2nd leg is still being booked, and a lot of changes to some scheduled dates are being made.
The show for Waterfest in Oshkosh, the Colorado shows and the Tucson show have been cancelled because of venue limitations.
Potentially, more shows will be added on the West Coast. The 2nd leg now begins in El Cajon, CA on 9/10.
The complete schedule, with as much up-to-date info as possible, can be found at "Liars" - 2004
The Band:
Kasim Sulton - bass
Jesse Gress - guitar
John Ferenzik - keyboards
Prairie Prince - drums